Age Quotes - Page 253

We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be the person in the photograph that was experiencing a tragedy or it could also be the spectator looking on from a safe distance.

"There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe."

Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

Only where there is language is there world.

When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

Life's uncertain voyage.

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.